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	MATTEO RICCI - LoveToKnow Article on MATTEO RICCI
		For some time Riccis residence was at Nan-changfu, the capital of Kiang-si; but in 1598 he was able to proceed under favorable conditions to Nan-king, and thence for the first time to Peking, which had all along been the goal of his missionary ambition.
		Riccis pointed attacks on Buddhism, and the wide circulation, of his books, called forth the opposition of the Buddhist clergy~ One of the ablest who took their part was Chu-hang, a priest of Hang-chow, who had abandoned the literary status for the Buddhist cloister.
		Ricci, seeing their dissatisfaction, set about constructing a ma~ of the hemisphere on a great scale, so adjusted that China, with its subject states, filled the central area, and, without deviating from truth of pTojection, occupied a large space in proportion to the other kingdoms gathered round it.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/Ricci_matteo.htm (1832 words)

	Matteo Ricci
		Matteo Ricci was a Jesuit missionary to China whose work affected the scientific community of China, and increased contact and understanding between the Chinese and Europeans.
		Matteo Ricci was born in Macetara, Italy in 1552.
		Ricci knew he couldn't finish his work in his lifetime, and enlisted Jesuits to continue his efforts, though this was hampered by the problem that his successors were not all as competent as he was (Barthel 192-193).
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/EastAsia1400-1700e/MatteoRicci.htm (1762 words)

	Matteo Ricci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matteo Ricci (Macerata, October 6, 1552 - Peking, May 11, 1610) (Chinese: 利瑪竇; pinyin: Lì Mǎdòu) was an Italian Jesuit priest whose missionary activity in China during the Ming Dynasty marked the beginning of modern Chinese Christianity.
		Ricci was the first to translate the Confucian Classics into a western language, Latin; in fact 'Confucius' was Ricci's own Latinisation.
		Matteo Ricci College at Seattle Preparatory School and Seattle University is also named after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matteo_Ricci (468 words)

	Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China
		Ricci was moving the Jesuits towards a closer relationship with the Confucian literati, and his reputation as a scholar among both Chinese and Westerners stems from this fact.
		Ricci’s success in gaining the friendship and respect of the scholar class, and the political and material support of many officials must be weighed against a good deal of resistance, xenophobia, and simple jealousy from other circles.
		Ricci’s reputation spread, and, as his diary notes, he was invited to innumerable banquets and parties in his honor, where he presented and discussed questions concerning religion, science, and philosophy.
	ricci.rt.usfca.edu /biography/view.aspx?biographyID=1018 (5830 words)

	Matteo Ricci - Wikipedia
		Ricci sbarcò a Macao e visse inizialmente nella Cina meridionale, essendo il resto del paese proibito agli stranieri.
		Ricci introdusse in Europa molti aspetti della Cina, in genere presentandoli sotto luce favorevole.
		Da molti viene indicata in Matteo Ricci l'origine della citazione Gesuiti euclidei vestiti come dei bonzi per entrare a corte degli imperatori della dinastia dei Ming, scritta da Franco Battiato nella canzone Centro di gravità permanente.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matteo_Ricci (696 words)

	AllRefer.com - Matteo Ricci (Chinese And Taiwanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Matteo Ricci[mAt-tA´O rEt´chE] Pronunciation Key, 1552–1610, Italian missionary to China.
		Ricci was sent to the Indies (1578), and he worked at Goa and Cochin until 1582, when he was called to Macao to enter China.
		Father Ricci's aptitude for languages and his respect for the Chinese classics increased his standing among the officials; by 1589 he had adopted the dress of the literati.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Ricci-Ma.html (401 words)

	Matteo Ricci, S.J.
		Matteo Ricci, S.J. Matteo Ricci was born in Macerata, Italy and died in Peking, China.
		Matteo Ricci brought trigonometry to China, and Ricci's successors, Verbiest and Schall von Bell, then used the geometric and trigonometric concepts to bring about a revolution in the sciences of astronomy, the design of astronomical instruments, mapmaking, and the intricate art of making accurate calendars.
		Matteo Ricci was a pioneer of cultural relations between China and the West, and his profound appreciation of Chinese cultural and moral values enabled him to make China known to the West and the West to China.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /jmac/sj/scientists/ricci.htm (2007 words)

	The Illuminated Lantern: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Illuminated Lantern: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits
		Matteo Ricci was not the first Catholic missionary to enter China, that honor probably going to John of Montecorvino, a Franciscan, who went to the east in the first years of fourteenth century.
		Ricci was not alone in his convictions, though, in most cases he followed the same beliefs that drove Ignatius of Loyola himself.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/archives/matteo_ricci_and_the_jesuits.php (1585 words)

	The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco
		Matteo Ricci, S.J., was the most illustrious of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China Mission.
		Ricci made the acquaintances of many Chinese, especially those of the literati class, who admired his world maps, his erudition, memory techniques, and friendly disposition.
		Ricci’s understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture endeared him to his students and associates, many of whom he baptized.
	www.usfca.edu /ricci/mricci.htm (348 words)

	matteo Ricci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ricci also said that these philosophers were respected by the leaders of the military and that they were consulted before any military action was ever taken.
		Ricci recognized that the Chinese were able to balance a tax system and a budget for the palace, military, and public works out of those taxes.
		Ricci did believe that the Chinese abandon their views from the past whenever someone new came into power, something I disagree with.
	web.cocc.edu /ea291po/_disc3/0000003f.htm (409 words)

	Matteo Ricci -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The church he built remains the largest Catholic church to survive the (A radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos) Cultural Revolution.
		Ricci arrived in south China in 1582, and at (Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city) Beijing in 1601, where he presented himself at the Imperial court of (Click link for more info and facts about Wanli) Wanli.
		Ricci introduced many aspects of China to (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe, generally in a favorable light.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/matteo_ricci.htm (473 words)

	Ricci_Matteo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ricci arrived at Macau on the east coast of China in 1582.
		Ricci's hypothesis was proved by another Jesuit by the name of De Goes, who set out from India in 1602, and although he died in 1607 before reaching Peking, he had by that time made contact by letter with Ricci and proved that Marco Polo's Cathay was China.
		Ricci of course had to dress in the style of a Chinese scholar and be known under a Chinese name, he used 'Li Matou', to become accepted by the Chinese.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Ricci_Matteo.html (660 words)

	Matteo Ricci ~ 1552-1610 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Matteo Ricci was born in Macerata, Italy in 1552.
		The map on the Italian stamp is not identified as Ricci's map, and it is not like the maps that are attributed to him.
		The image of Ricci on the stamp is that of a Chinese scholar, and also appears on a Chinese stamp with an armillary sphere.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/ricci.htm (193 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Matteo Ricci
		Ricci made his classical studies in his native town, studied law at Rome for two years, and on 15 Aug., 1571, entered the Society of Jesus at the Roman College, where he made his novitiate, and philosophical and theological studies.
		Ricci drew a larger map of the world on which he wrote more detailed inscriptions, suited to the needs of the Chinese; when the work was completed the governor had it printed, giving all the copies as presents to his friends in the province and at a distance.
		Ricci maintained this opinion in several passages of his T'ien-chu-she-i; it will be readily understood of what assistance it was to destroy Chinese prejudices against the Christian religion.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13034a.htm (5173 words)

	CHAPTER XI THE ATTEMPT OF MATTEO RICCI TO LINK
		Hence, as the attitude of Matteo Ricci towards traditional Chinese culture is related to his missionary goals in contacting Chinese and especially Confucianist culture, he developed an intensive knowledge of that culture and recognized its very positive value.
		Matteo Ricci was strongly against the idolatry of Buddhism and Daoism (Taoism), but he did not regard Confucian worship as a kind of idolatry.
		Since Matteo Ricci well understood Chinese conditions, he adopted the method of compromising with the Chinese tradition for the sake of adapting to Chinese society as well as his missionary work, although the attempts did not conform to the doctrines of Catholicism.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series03/III-3/chapter_xi__the_attempt_of_matte.htm (3825 words)

	No. 1226: Ricci's Memory Palace
		Ricci went to China in 1582 and spent the remaining 32 years of his life there.
		Ricci brought blazing intelligence to the task of learning who the Chinese were and how to bring Christianity to them.
		Ricci may've been bringing modern reform to the Catholic Church, but he was also leading the Chinese back to the interior life of the medieval church, a world where the mind was supposed to operate with minimal instruction from outside influence.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1226.htm (546 words)

	The University of Scranton - Matteo Ricci, S.J. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ricci’s ardent desire to serve in the Chinese mission was realized first with studies in Goa, a district of Portugese India.
		Ricci had taught himself how to construct a memory palace, a kind of storage space for the thousands of names and facts, concepts and images that daily enter the mind.
		Ricci approached the Chinese with "respect, attention, and devotion," even as he approached a Sino-Christian culture through reason and respect for the dignity of the Chinese culture which he embraced–its food, clothing, humor, and respect for Confucian moral standard of living.
	matrix.scranton.edu /about/ab_matteo_ricci.shtml (3776 words)

	NYTimes
		Ricci's purpose was to teach Western memory techniques to the Chinese, in the hope that, out of gratitude and admiration, they might be induced to take an interest in Western religious beliefs as well.
		Ricci associates his first image with the Chinese ideograph for war (wu), and he suggests that the word be represented in the mind by two warriors, one of them about to strike the other with his spear, while the second tries to deflect the blow by grasping the first man's wrist.
		Matteo Ricci's memory, as it is brought to life in these pages, boasts a sumptuousness and grandeur whose disappearance we have reason to regret.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/12/06/specials/spence-ricci.html (1593 words)

	Ricci, Matteo -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Ricci, known in China as Li Ma-tou, lived there for nearly 30 years and helped build a bridge of understanding between China and the West.
		Ricci was born in Macerata, Italy, on Oct. 6, 1552.
		Matteo, their oldest child, after preliminary studies at home, entered the school that the...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276720?tocId=9276720 (776 words)

	East Asian Studies Documents: Matteo Ricci on China
		Here Ricci expresses a keen interest in Chinese printing methods, which at that time were well in advance of the techniques used in the West.
		Ricci learned the Chinese language with such proficiency that he persuaded officials to allow him into the country where he taught Chinese intellectuals about mathematics and science and published the first six books of Euclid's Elements in Chinese.
		Ricci's most important published work was his History of the Introduction of Christianity into China.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/documents/ricci.htm (2978 words)

	Ricci, Matteo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Ricci was from a noble family in Macerata, in central Italy.
		His father, Giovanni Battista Ricci, a pharmacist by profession, dedicated most of his time to public affairs and for a time served as governor of the city.
		Italian poet Matteo Boiardo is known for his poem Orlando innamorato (Roland in Love), the first poem to combine elements of two traditions of epic romance—the British legends of King Arthur and the French legends based on the reign of the medieval emperor Charlemagne.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9063525?tocId=9063525 (776 words)

	Encyclopedia: Matteo Ricci
		Image File history File links Download high resolution version (740x974, 127 KB) Matteo Ricci Painted in 1610 by the Chinese brother Emmanuel Pereira (born Yu Wen-hui), who had learned his art from the Italian Jesuit, Giovanni Nicolao.
		Riccius is a lunar crater that is located in the rugged, southeastern part of the Moons near side.
		Matteo Ricci, S.J. Image File history File links Commons-logo.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Matteo-Ricci (1527 words)

	Bodenheimer Gallery - Ricci
		First, they could be drawn from reality-- that is, from buildings that one had been in or from objects that one had seen with one's own eyes and recalled in one's memory.
		Ricci is a major historical figure in several domains: Chinese history, the history of missionaries and scientists within the Catholic church, the history of mathematics, and the history of geography.
		His fame relies not so much on the original scientific breakthroughs that he made, but instead on his ability to translate and disseminate huge amounts of knowledge between the Chinese and the Europeans.
	www.bodenheimer.com /2.0/lethbridge/text/ricci.html (142 words)

	Matteo Ricci, the Grand Design, and the Disaster of the 'Rites Controversy'
		Ricci lived by this principle, which flourished in China until, a hundred years after Ricci's death, a Venetian faction in the Church succeeded in turning the Vatican against his ideas.
		Ricci was not hesitant to challenge the popular opinion in Chinese society, especially among the literati whom he was trying to convert.
		Just as Ricci found the Chinese of a moral disposition to embrace Christianity, so were they willing and anxious to enhance their own rich scientific and cultural heritage with the scientific ideas and methods which Ricci and some of the later Jesuits had mastered.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2001/2843m_ricci.html (3169 words)

	Message for the Fourth Centenary of the arrival in Beijing of Father Matteo Ricci
		The reaction of the Emperor was positive, and this gave greater significance and importance to the Catholic presence in modern China.
		Father Matteo Ricci made himself so "Chinese with the Chinese" that he became an expert Sinologist, in the deepest cultural and spiritual sense of the term, for he achieved in himself an extraordinary inner harmony between priest and scholar, between Catholic and orientalist, between Italian and Chinese.
		Four hundred years after the arrival of Matteo Ricci in Beijing, we cannot fail to ask what is the message he can offer to the great Chinese nation and to the Catholic Church, to both of which he felt ever deeply bound and by both of which he was and is sincerely valued and loved.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2001/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20011024_matteo-ricci_en.html (1509 words)

	The Skeletons in China's closet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Already, the Association for Matteo Ricci Studies of China has produced a fine book about Ricci and the colleagues lying at his side.
		Ricci wasn't the first Westerner to visit the mysterious Middle Kingdom, but he made the greatest mark.
		But Ricci is more renowned for what he brought China--Catholicism, of course, but also Western methods of mathematics and astronomy.
	www.gluckman.com /Graves.html (1084 words)

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